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Amazon to shut down California affiliates over new sales tax law

If things continue down their current path, Amazon’s affiliate program will eventually go extinct in the US. Late Wednesday, California joined the growing list of states attempting to collect sales tax from online retailers…


Toss Your Expectations Into the Ocean

‘Act without expectation.’ ~Lao Tzu
Post written by Leo Babauta.
How much of your stress, frustration, disappointment, anger, irritation, pissed-offedness comes from one little thing?
Almost all of it comes from your expectations, and when things (…


The Org Charts Of All The Major Tech Companies (Humor) (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT)

Here is a funny take on how all the biggest tech companies are organized from designer Manu Cornet, via Foursquare product chief Alex Rainert. Rainert notes on Tumblr, "These are really great though I imagine there’s a bit more centralized gra…


Wyoming’s corporation mills manufacture privileged artificial “people” to order

Dan “Mediactive” Gillmor sez, “Looks like corporations (i.e. the people who control them) have more rights to privacy in America than regular citizens.

This terrific investigative piece by Reuters (co-reported by one of my colleagues at Arizona State…


TOM THE DANCING BUG: In which the President is forced to get “Pro-Life”


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